Posted on 08/15/2005 8:08:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.
"I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early."
"I dont know if it would have prevented 9/11," he added. "But it certainly would have complicated it.
Despite his failure to launch such an attack, Clinton said he saw the danger posed by bin Laden much more clearly than did President Bush.
"I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine.
Ex-president Bill Clinton now says he would have taken out Osama bin Laden before the 9/11 attacks -- if only the FBI and CIA had been able to prove the al-Qaida mastermind was behind the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. "I desperately wish that I had been president when the FBI and CIA finally confirmed, officially, that bin Laden was responsible for the attack on the U.S.S. Cole," Clinton tells New York magazine this week. "Then we could have launched an attack on Afghanistan early." "I don't know if it would have prevented 9/11," he added. "But it certainly would have complicated it." Despite his failure to launch such an attack, Clinton said he saw the danger posed by bin Laden much more clearly than did President Bush. "I always thought that bin Laden was a bigger threat than the Bush administration did," he told New York magazine. Clinton: I Would Have Attacked Bin Laden oops...
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Hey Meathead, you had your chance but you chose to diddle a fat girl in the oval office instead, now STFU, the adults are in charge now.
Miss M..the ONE thing that is absolute proof that there is a lot more to the Able/Danger story than has yet come out is the fact that since it first broke a few weeks ago, the 9/11 commission members haven't been seen anywheres in public. Normally media whores...BenVeniste, Gorelick, et al have been incommunicado....
Much too little, entirely too late.
Well, BillyJeff, you had EIGHT years to do something about Bin Ladin, not eight MONTHS as Pres. Bush had. I think Monica was the bigger threat you were worried about, you pathetic loser.
Good luck. Not only do you have to outlive him, you also have to live long enough to get to the front of the line.
Sigh......................................words fail.
In addition, add the curious effort to trash Welton immediately, portraying him as a conspiracy nut who wants to sell books.
.....Former president Clintoon said that had he known Monica Lewinsky was going to keep that blue dress, he would have never wasted a good cigar on her.
excellent point
A response I sent to a Lib on this very same day!
Besides the OBL Sudan connection, this author also offers up another "wall" screw up."
Miniter: "The Clinton administration was in the dark about the full extent of the bin Laden menace because the president's decision to treat the 1993 World Trade Center bombing as a crime. Once the FBI began a criminal investigation, it could not lawfully share its information with the CIA without also having to share the same data with the accused terrorists. Woolsey told me about his frustration that he had less access to evidence from the World Trade Center bombing the then-largest ever foreign terrorist attack on U.S soil than any junior agent in the FBI's New York office."
(Of Course King Klinton was helpless to change the policy if indeed it existed. He was able to flaunt the law in every other aspect of his personal and presidential affairs but couldn't find a way to protect the country. )
Read on about OBL
http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/interrogatory091103b.asp
Vanity Fair printed lies?
"ACCORDING TO TIM CARNEY, THE LAST U.S. AMBASSADOR to Sudan, whose posting ended in 1997, The fact is, they were opening the doors, and we werent taking them up on it. The U.S. failed to reciprocate Sudans willingness to engage us on some serious questions of terrorism. We can speculate that this failure had serious implicationsat least for what happened at the U.S. Embassies in 1998. In any case, the U.S. lost access to a mine of material on bin Laden and his organization. He tells Rose, It was worse than a crime. It was a f***up. <
I read that exactly the same way. Why would he put this out now????
Yep, those are his words. Right up there with "If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age."
Ugh! Not only can I skip the treadmill today, but I don't need caffeine! My blood is boiling!! He has mastered the art of making himself the neverending story. He is absolutely shameless!
Gifts the Clintons are paying for:--$2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis,
Los Angeles.--$5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt,
Winnetka, Ill.--$499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad,
Calif.--$4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
--$340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and
Nina Canci, St. Louis.--$6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets,
Calhoun, Ga.--$300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New
Brunswick, Canada.--$4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted
Danson, Los Angeles.--$7,000 dining room table, server and golf club
from Mr. and Mrs. Ron Dozoretz, Washington.--$5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
--$2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul
Goldenberg, La Habra, Calif.--$1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green
Valley, Nev.--$450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha,
Neb.--$524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard
Helmstetter, Carlsbad, Calif.--$4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
--$2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol,
Pound Ridge, N.Y.--$9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of
President Lincoln's Cooper Union speech from
Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.--$350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills,
Calif.--$595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary,
San Francisco.--$4,967 flatwear, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos,
Beverly Hills, Calif.--$300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready,
Chappaqua, N.Y.--$7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs,
Denise Rich, New York.--$4,920 china, Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg,
Universal City, Calif.--$3,000 painting, Joan Tumpson, Miami.
--$350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet
Thanh, Vietnam.--$4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly
Hills, Calif.--$500 antique book on President Washington,
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los Angeles.Gift not returned but donated:
--$800 photograph of Duke Ellington, Ken Burns,
Walpole, N.H., donated to Duke Ellington School,
Washington.
A walk down memory lane:
Investigative Guild Threads:
NY Post ready with new Pardongate story-Hillary recieved 4 fur coats THREAD III
And, of course, an all time favorite:
Hillary's Stocking Stuffer (Dowd says: Quick, buy Hillary a gift BEFORE she becomes Senator!)
And
If Clinton gets out in front of the Able/Danger story..as he is trying to do here, then they can depict it as just "political attacks"...
Oh, excellent bookmarks.
A good Freeper NEVER loses a bookmark we might need later to refute a pack of lies, do we?
It's worked before.
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